Elizabeth Warren Quotes

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I'm painfully middle class.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

In our rush to soak the rich make sure we don't drown the middle class.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

Maybe it’s that silver spoon in his [Mitt Romney’s] mouth that keeps him from seeing why the middle class doesn’t pull itself up by its bootstraps, like he did when Daddy loaned him his first million dollars.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.

I want to help the middle class.

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

I am hard-core middle class.